What the actual fuck is it with the deluge of £100,000 isn't that great a salary so let me brag about my or (worse) my dh's salary of 5x that threads?

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I'm assuming this is some sort of Daily Mail infiltration because how on earth can the plethora of these stupid bloody repetitive and nonsensical threads be explained away by anything else?

I know it's common jolly parlance to say the average Mumsnetter is on £100,000 or in a £100,000 joint income family. But that's not actually true is it?

I find it freakish how often this tired old conversation is being rehashed on here.

Yes but you have just started another one

And all about how £800,000 isn’t that much money when you have to pay for school fees and uniform and council tax in zone whatever: Yeah we get it you are richer than us (or a fairly unimaginative troll).

I wish we broke into six figures as a family! ... saying that as long as we can make ends meet and have time as a family that’s pretty amazing ... it’s tight but we are damn lucky 🍀

I have to agree with birds to be honest

I know birds! Sorry but this is slightly different. I'm just trying to work out wtf is going on.

I have oodles of wealth as I've a lovely dd and my lovely Mum and I get by.

bibbity

Someone said on another thread that threads seem to come in groups

I suppose one starts...and then people dont want to derail by asking their questions so start a new thread

A new thread with a teeny tiny variation on the original

It's just people looking for validation. They're hoping to attract posts saying how very rich they are, and posts from people living on the minimum wage, so they can reflect on how comfortably off they are.

@ScreamingValenta I doubt my thread on how low my income is would get the same result

But you can be filthy rich and still unhappy, I was brought up to appreciate what I have and anything else is a bonus, that mantra was good enough for my grandmother who lived to 98 so it's good enough for me. Cant see the point in all this Harry Enfield I've got more money than you crap

My DH’s 1 billion pound salary doesn’t go far by the time we’ve paid for the polo horses and my weekly diamonds.

I agree threads do tend to come in groups. Remember the AMAs - at least they got a topic on MN.

Anyone fancy starting a thread in Site Stuff requesting MNHQ to set a separate topic called 'All in for £100k'

How do they earn that much and have timed to read Mumsnet, let alone post?!

I feel sorry for them feeling all hard done by without realising how fortunate they are. Those existing on less and feeling like they have enough and are happy are much better off in life if not bank balance.

I find it fascinating to read how ungrateful people are with posts like we only have two holidays a year and one is to the UK for two weeks in Cornwall... without acknowledging that many get only one holiday and others none at all

They just never seem happy. Whining that £100k isn’t enough.

I hope I never, ever get my knickers in a twist over what threads there are on a fucking internet forum.

Don’t read them. Try that.

Don't a lot of them come out of the London parallel universe? I am guessing that the salaries available/cost of housing and living can really skew people's perspectives if it's all they see around them.

That said, MN has really opened my eyes to how many people seem to seek external validation via admiration of their wealth, top-of-their-game very-senior husbands, tall, sporty and bright children, size 8 figures and curated lives.

I think a lot of them do come from the London parallel universe, agreed with a pp.

But I AM living in the London parallely universe. The London parallel universe is my home and mostly what I know. Yet I still don't want to see yet another "£100k a year blah blah blah" threads. It's so dreary and repetitive and just a bit weird.

That's where the second bit of my post comes in - the seeming need of some people for self-reassurance and validation.

I tend to find them quite funny. There was a poster who talked about getting £250k as a wedding gift and then went on to talk about how they'd passed on to their dc the importance of financial self reliance. How can you not laugh at that? I take a lot of bragging posts with a pinch of salt and mostly roll my eyes at the "£100k income but we're the squeezed middle" ones.

“I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me” tra la la. Sorry, had a glass and fancy karaoke.

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